The generation of the ravers — the documentary
The documentary «Ρέηβερς, τα κακά παιδιά ξανάρχονται» — the first part of a trilogy on the underground culture of the 1990s. Cameraman Stelios Bouranis, editing by Kostas Agapitos.
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The raver's «circles»
Argyris Dinopoulos's documentary on the rave movement, filmed in 1995 in the haunts of Athens and broadcast by Antenna. Years later a single extract from it became the most viral video of his entire career in journalism.
Argyris Dinopoulos may have covered major events abroad and in Greece across more than forty years of journalism, but the most viral video out of all that reporting, in the age of the internet, is one.
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The interview with the raver who, in 1995, tells Argyris Dinopoulos that he «sees circles»
It is an extract from the documentary «Ρέηβερς, τα κακά παιδιά ξανάρχονται» — Ravers, the bad kids are back — broadcast by Antenna.
The documentary was the outcome of journalistic research into the «Rave Movement», on the musical level chiefly, but on the social and cultural level as well.
The filming was done in the raver haunts of Athens, with Stelios Bouranis as cameraman; the editing was done afterwards by Kostas Agapitos.
Many years later, in the age of the internet, the interview with the young raver who tells Argyris Dinopoulos that he «sees circles» went viral, on the new codes of communication — and of thought — of the digital age.
Internet users over the years gave this raver the name «Takis», which does not correspond to reality: the name «Takis» heard in a question from Argyris Dinopoulos is addressed to a different raver (asking him his age), while the answers immediately following — cut tight together in the edit, with the man who «sees circles» last in the sequence — are single words (they simply give their age), with no question from Argyris Dinopoulos preceding each of them.
So the name of the man who «sees circles» will probably never be known, since he has not been securely identified to this day, nor did he ever express a wish to appear in the public sphere, real or digital.
Argyris Dinopoulos, by contrast — and at the very time he was involved in politics — was made party to the wish of two women (teenagers in 1995) that their interviews be removed from the documentary, which was already posted on the internet, for their own personal and professional reasons; and so he «cut» those extracts.
Antenna in 1995 had serious reservations about broadcasting the documentary, which Argyris Dinopoulos delivered — the «master», in Beta format — to the station's general director Spilios Charamis on 6 January 1995, the day of Epiphany, for it to be broadcast in the end after midnight on 24 April 1995, the second day of Easter
The documentary «Ρέηβερς, τα κακά παιδιά ξανάρχονται» was the first part of a trilogy on the underground culture of the 1990s that Argyris Dinopoulos made for Antenna.
The other two documentaries are «Τραγούδια της νύχτας» (on the second-tier bouzouki venues known as «σκυλάδικα», filmed in 1995) and «Το αλκοόλ» (on the alcoholism of the night, filmed in 1997)
The raver's «circles» — the most viral video of Argyris Dinopoulos's career in the internet age
The extract from the 1995 documentary in which a young raver answers Argyris Dinopoulos that he «sees circles». Years later, in the age of the internet, it went viral.
The documentaries
The songs of the night
The second part of the trilogy, filmed in 1995: the second-tier venues he himself calls «σκυλάδικα».
Alcohol
The third part of the trilogy, filmed in 1997, on the alcoholism of the night.
